EU MINISTERS DELAY GALILEO FUTURE FUNDING DECISION
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have refused to give up on EU global positioning service GALILEO, telling the European Commission to draw up detailed proposals by September for initial funding by taxpayers. Whilst leaving an option to pull the plug, an EU Council of Ministers meeting has backed a communiqué that "reaffirms the value of Galileo as a key project", and accepts its deployment will require "additional public funding". Ministers also scrapped the current concession negotiations, which has sown discord between potential private ...
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